“Total robotaxi travel distance doubled in California last year, from 3.8 million kilometers per month at the end of 2024 to 9.4 million in December 2025,” reports The Doomslayer. “This data comes from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which requires companies operating paid driverless taxi services to file detailed quarterly reports on passenger distance, safety incidents, and other operational data.”
Self-driving cars are generally safer than human-driven cars. Self-driving cars could reduce automobile fatalities by over 90%.
Amazon is planning to produce up to 10,000 robotaxis a year at a California plant.
Waymo “now provides 400,000 robotaxi rides per week, up from 200,000 around this time last year. That number will likely grow even more this year, with the company planning to expand operations to more than 20 new cities,” reports The Doomslayer.
“Waymo is so safe that if every car was driven like a Waymo, about 9% of America’s life expectancy gap” compared to the nations with the longest life span “would disappear,” notes a commentator.
Robots are also saving lives by doing difficult and dangerous tasks. German robots hunted the North Sea for tens of thousands of unexploded World War II bombs.
Scientists have developed tiny robots made of human cells to repair damaged cells.
